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Dairies of Garden Home

This article examines the dairies in the greater Garden Home area: Recollections of area dairies Alpenrose Dairy (Cadonau) Shattuck Dairy (Gertsch) Von Bergen Dairy Fanno Creek Dairy (Feldman) Garden Home Dairy (Marugg) Hoffman Balmer Dairy Schallberger Dairy Fulton Park Dairy … Continue reading

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Shirley Gertsch Bartels on Peter and Pete Gertsch

Peter Gertsch, his wife Katy Tannler and his brother Fred (known as Fritz) came to Garden Home from Switzerland and settled on property off of Oleson Road sometime in the 1890’s. This property was on the west side of Oleson … Continue reading

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Robert Gertsch

Robert Gertsch was born in 1946. His grandfather and two brothers had settled in Garden Home in the 1890s and developed the early Shattuck Dairy. Robert started Garden Home School in the fourth grade in 1960 and graduated from Beaverton … Continue reading

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Early Dairies by Pete Gertsch

Following is a brief history of the early dairy industry, written for his family by Pete Gertsch in 1970 or 1971. The Gertsch family established the Shattuck Dairy in the 1890’s just north of Garden Home Road and south of Vermont … Continue reading

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